SAA 15 290. On a Foundation Stone (CT 53 308)[via saao/saa15]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [To] the king, [my lord]: yo[ur servant] Nadin[...]. | |
o 22 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ mna-⸢din?⸣-[x x] | |
o 33 | (3) As to the foundation stone [about which I wrote] to the king, my lord, [in] one side of it [...] | |
o 44 | [ša] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ [(x x x)] | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-su it-⸢ta⸣-[x x] | |
o 77 | [x x] ⸢ak?⸣ šá-ni-[x x x] | |
o 88 | [x x] ú-ru-⸢ku⸣ [x x x] | |
o 99 | [pu-u]-⸢lu⸣ ur-ki-⸢ú⸣ [x x x] | |
o 1010 | [x x] ⸢i⸣-šá-an-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
o 1111 | [x x x]-áš-ru ṣa [x x x] | |
o 1212 | ||
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x x]-ta an-nu-[rig?] | |
r 3'3' | [x x] ⸢GÍR?⸣-MEŠ AN.BAR ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
r 4'4' | [x x] na ⸢KÁ⸣ i—su-ri [o] | |
r 5'5' | (r 5) [the king], my lord, will say: | |
r 6'6' | (r 6) "Why did you bring out [...]?" | |
r 7'7' | tu-še-⸢ṣi⸣ [x x x x x] | |
r 8'8' | ⸢ta⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
r 9'9' | ṣa [x x x x x x x x] | |
r 10'10' | e-⸢pu-uš⸣ [x x x x x] | (r 10) Do [......] |
r 11'11' | a-na-⸢ṣar⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 11) I guard [...] |
r 12'12' | (r 12) before [...] | |
r 13'13' | (r 13) In the days of [...] | |
Right | ||
r.e. 14r.e. 14 | (r 14) [a]t 1.5 shekels [...] | |
r.e. 1515 | [x]+⸢x⸣ ka na ir [x x x x] | |
r.e. 1616 | (r 16) [let] him not [...] | |
Edge | ||
e. 1e. 1 | [x x x x x]-na KUR-MEŠ [x x x] |
Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P313723/.